• Gladaed@feddit.org
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      Great care without perspective future productivity is considered a social good(I.e. of elderly and disabled folks without reintegration perspective, think physicsgirl who has long COVID, for example). It may still be a good thing, but the degree to which it furthers society is difficult to quantise.

      Not saying we shouldn’t by the way. It’s just very hard to put an actual value on these kinds of things.

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        Are you devil’s advocating? If we just look at health care, we can see the dollars added to the ledger from kids not dying in polio.

        A healthy adult likes being productive, but we are not really healthy as a whole nowadays.

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        but the degree to which it furthers society is difficult to quantise.

        That’s because “furthering of society” doesn’t have a well defined metric.

        … so why quantise it at all?